Janine Teo: How AI Empowers Youth, Reinvents Learning & Sparks Motivation – E598

"Yes, AI can do it for you, and AI can do it for, in fact, everybody now, since so many—everyone has access to AI, right? So then what makes you different from others, right? What's your talent, or how—if you and another person are in a run for the same job, same position—what's going to make you stand out? So I would ask the youth to really think harder in such questions." - Janine Teo, CEO of Solve Education

"For the audience that I'm working with, which are marginalized youth, I think AI is very exciting because this means that with AI, they get to explore, ask questions, and learn at their own pace. For us, we even integrated an AI coach within our platform at bot.ai, so that it is able to give our students career guidance or even encouragement—or just be there, sometimes just someone to talk to and also ask questions that they don't understand from their schoolwork." - Janine Teo, CEO of Solve Education

Janine Teo, CEO of Solve Education, returns to BRAVE after three years to explore how AI is reshaping education for marginalized youth. She and Jeremy Au unpack the double-edged nature of AI in learning, how Solve Education leverages gamification and AI coaching to drive motivation, and the shifting job market where entry-level roles are disappearing. They discuss how AI is widening access for underserved learners, challenging traditional career aspirations, and demanding new approaches to teaching foundational skills. Janine also shares how her team’s GAIN model: Gamification, AI, Incentives, and Network, tackles agency gaps and builds community-led learning environments for impact at scale.